The fight headlined this past Saturday’s “Extreme Challenge 170: On Target” event at the Target Center in snow-covered Minneapolis.

Other weekend winners included notables such as Jeremy Horn, Rich Clementi, Mike Whitehead and Dane Sayers.

Sylvia (28-6), who’s undefeated since a June 2009 loss to boxer Ray Mercer, easily handled Lucero (19-19-1), a Rage in the Cage vet who entered the fight in a midst of a 1-7-1 skid. After he was dropped on multiple occasions, Lucero tapped out from a ground-and-pound assault midway through the opening round.

A host of other notables competed on the card, which was lowly attended due to a blizzard that caused a roof collapse at the nearby Metrodome.

MMA ironman Jeremy Horn (87-20-5) picked up his seventh win in eight fights with a first-round guillotine-choke victory over Lee McKibbin (3-7) in Friday’s “Cage Wars: Validation” main event in Northern Ireland. Horn’s recent tear began after an early-2009 UFC release. Despite the wear and tear of 15 years of pro fighting, he went 4-1 in 2010 with four first-round submission victories.

Also on the Cage Wars card, UFC vet Rich Clementi (39-17-1) scored a third-round submission victory over Swiss lightweight Felipe Enomoto (5-2) to improve to 3-1 over his past four fights (and 4-2 during a busy 2010).

“The Ultimate Fighter 2″ cast member and UFC/Strikeforce veteran Mike Whitehead (26-7) picked up another quality win by edging heavyweight veteran Eddie Sanchez (12-5) in the headliner of Friday’s Pure Fighting Championships 6 event in Alberta, Canada. On the same card, former EliteXC/Strikeforce/Bellator middleweight Robert “Bubba” McDaniel (16-6) picked up his fourth win in five fights with a second-round TKO of “The Ultimate Fighter 11″ cast member Kyacey Uscola (22-18).

“The Ultimate Fighter 12″ cast member Dane Sayers (8-1) set up a second-round submission win due to strikes against veteran Wayne Hajicek (18-16) in Friday’s “Crowbar MMA: Winter Brawl” event in North Dakota. Sayers, who didn’t compete at the TUF 12 Finale earlier this month, has only one defeat on his resume: a split-decision loss to Indalecio Tat Romero (16-3) back in January.

Also on the Crowbar MMA card, “TUF 3″ cast member Jesse Forbes (15-5) rebounded from back-to-back UFC losses earlier this year with a second-round TKO of Justin Guthrie (5-4), and fast-rising female fighter Cat Zingano (5-0) scored a second-round TKO of notable Carina Damm (15-5), who’s now lost two straight since a career-best 10-fight win streak. UFC/WEC vet Steve Steinbeiss (5-4) and one-time Bellator fighter Carla Esparza (4-1) also picked up wins on the card.

In the headliner of Friday’s The Fight Club 12 event in Alberta, Canada, Canadian vet Bastien Huveneers (9-3-1) earned a split-decision win over longtime KOTC fighter Nick Hinchliffe (17-7). Additionally, Karl Knothe (18-6) picked up his 12th straight win by stopping UFC vet Victor Valimaki (16-8) in the first round with punches, and Louis-Philippe Carles (8-2) scored a second-round submission win over former Canadian Football League player Rio Wells (4-1).

A total of 26 fighters got their chance to shine on Saturday as part of UFC 190 at Rio de Janeiro’s HSBC Arena. Now that UFC 190 is in the books, it’s time to commence MMAjunkie’s “Three Stars” ceremony.

The man known for cranking submissions to the point of injury added eye-gouging to his repertoire. But is the controversy of Rousimar Palhares too essential to his bizarre, awful appeal for his employers to take any meaningful action against him?